I am unsure where the resistance comes from. They don't want government involved, but government is involved in all sorts of oil subsidies and tax breaks, big time. Government is involved even more if you consider the lobby and special interest money thrown about to both Democratic and Republican campaign coffers. Anyone who would deny this is either a fool or completely ignorant, or both. The future, as it always has been, lies in innovation, science, technology and wise use of our natural resources and working towards creating new ones. The "free market" isn't so free. Large sums of money are regularly spread to stifle innovation and prevent new technology from becoming the norm and the "new thing." Sure, the free market will prevail, but when and how long before that old racehorse, oil, is seen as an old nag and we move onto new sources of power. Our nation once was proud of innovation, but now we want to keep with old power methods and ignore the new ones. If we took the money we gave to oil and spent it on solar, there would be a panel on every roof. Heck, ask NASA about the importance of solar power. They send crafts to the limits of the solar system using it.
